[8] The emergence of the town in 1841 is connected with the mastering of the Gremyachinsky coal deposit.

During the war years, the acute need for coal and the use of cheap labour made the development of the Gremyachinsky deposit profitable.

Since the 1960s, coal production in the Kizelovsky basin became unprofitable and started to decrease.

With the closure of the last mines in the 1990s, Gremyachinsk became a village near a gas compressor station.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with the work settlement of Usva and five rural localities, incorporated as the town of krai significance of Gremyachinsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.